Seventeen-year-old Alexander Skudlarek broke the record in October after playing "Dance Dance Revolution" for over 16 hours, but now it's official. Video game blog Kotaku says the Rochester teen just received the official letter from the Guinness Book of World Records.

Kotaku says Skudlarek isn't especially crazy about the game, he just wanted to beat a world record for video games and, after flipping through the book, figured this was one he could beat.

Skudlarek did this for 16 hours, 18 minutes and 9 seconds (with a 10-minute break every hour):

U.S. Bancorp, parent company of U.S. Bank, posted a record net income of $1.47 billion, a 16 percent jump from $1.27 billion a year-earlier, Bloomberg reports. “Earnings included continued strong mortgage-banking activity, which contributed to our growth in fee income, residential real estate loans and loans held for sale,” said CEO Richard Davis.

For most of us, a couple of hours is plenty of time to enjoy a session of a favorite board game. Not so for Brett Carow and Sam Hennemann. They traveled from the Land of Lakes to a New York pub to play their game of choice -- Strat-O-Matic Baseball -- for 54 straight hours, setting a new world record.

836 people dressed up as Ninja Turtles at Nickelodeon Universe Saturday morning, breaking the previous record of 786. It was to help celebrate the grand opening of the new Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Shell Shock ride at MOA.